Those who invested in Saturn Oil & Gas (CVE:SOIL) five years ago are up 96%

Saturn Oil & Gas Inc. (CVE:SOIL) shareholders have seen the share price descend 17% over the month. On the bright side the returns have been quite good over the last half decade. Its return of 96% has certainly bested the market return!

So let's investigate and see if the longer term performance of the company has been in line with the underlying business' progress.

View our latest analysis for Saturn Oil & Gas

Given that Saturn Oil & Gas didn't make a profit in the last twelve months, we'll focus on revenue growth to form a quick view of its business development. When a company doesn't make profits, we'd generally expect to see good revenue growth. As you can imagine, fast revenue growth, when maintained, often leads to fast profit growth.

In the last 5 years Saturn Oil & Gas saw its revenue grow at 62% per year. Even measured against other revenue-focussed companies, that's a good result. It's good to see that the stock has 14%, but not entirely surprising given revenue shows strong growth. If the strong revenue growth continues, we'd expect the share price to follow, in time. Opportunity lies where the market hasn't fully priced growth in the underlying business.

You can see below how earnings and revenue have changed over time (discover the exact values by clicking on the image).

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A Different Perspective

Saturn Oil & Gas provided a TSR of 13% over the last twelve months. Unfortunately this falls short of the market return. If we look back over five years, the returns are even better, coming in at 14% per year for five years. Maybe the share price is just taking a breather while the business executes on its growth strategy. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Saturn Oil & Gas better, we need to consider many other factors. Even so, be aware that Saturn Oil & Gas is showing 4 warning signs in our investment analysis , and 2 of those are a bit unpleasant...

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Please note, the market returns quoted in this article reflect the market weighted average returns of stocks that currently trade on CA exchanges.

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